Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine times out of ten the Joint Chiefs reach agreement and pass their recommendations upward to civilian authority for the final decisions, a red line slashed across the bottom of each of the white policy papers to signify J.C.S. agreement. When the Chiefs disagree, it is the job of the chairman, Admiral Radford, to press them, gently or not gently, or to report the disagreement to his civilian boss, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. "What do you think, Raddy?" Wilson will then invariably ask. Invariably, Radford will produce a written reply, saying, "Here are a few thoughts...
...German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...
BUSINESS FLYING BOOM is lifting dollar sales of civilian noncommercial planes to alltime high. Plane companies sold 6,738 private craft for $104 million last year, up 52% from the 4,434 planes for $68 million in 1955. Private civilian fleet now numbers 60,000 aircraft which fly 10,000,000 hours a year...
Establishment of the Center follows many years of research at Harvard in aviation biotechnology under McFarland, and is the direct result of three years of postgraduate training of U.S. and Canadian Armed Forces surgeons at the School of Public Health. The extension of this work to civilian specialists will be possible at the new center...
McFarland said that "there is an in creasing demand for civilian and military physicians trained in aviation biotechnology" and added that this is the first graduate center to be established for training such personnel...